GCap wins Oxford radio licence

LONDON - GCap Media is gaining more ground in the battle for local digital multiplex licences after it beat its closest rival, MuxCo, to the latest licence.

Yesterday (Thursday) Ofcom awarded the Oxfordshire licence to GCap’s NOW Digital consortium while the company’s former corporate development director Gregory Watson and his GCap deputy, Matt Degan, lose out again as new company, MuxCo.

The two firms have gone head-to-head in all six of the local digital multiplex applications to date, and GCap is now leading the battle, securing Northamptonshire, Derbyshire and Herts, Beds and Bucks. MuxCo has secured north-east Wales/west Cheshire and Herefordshire/Worcestershire.

GCap’s line up for the area includes two of its own stations – Fox FM and XFM – with three services from Absolute Radio – Jack FM, Oxford's FM 107.9 and “soft adult alternative”, My-fm Oxfordshire.

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